{"id":6037,"date":"2015-05-07T16:32:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T16:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/christianpiatt\/?p=6037"},"modified":"2015-05-07T17:39:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:39:35","slug":"how-to-sue-every-gay-person-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christianpiatt\/2015\/05\/how-to-sue-every-gay-person-on-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Sue Every Gay Person On the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"suing<\/a>If you\u2019ve been wondering how one would go about filing a federal lawsuit against hundreds of millions of gay and lesbian people in every nation on earth at once for \u201cbreaking religious and moral laws,\u201d look no further that Sylvia Ann Driskell (different than Mark Driscoll, mind you) in Omaha, Nebraska. She\u2019s got it figured out.<\/p>\n

Though she is technically the one filing suit, she claims to be merely an ambassador for the real defendants, who she says are God and Jesus. According to a piece on the Huffington Post<\/a> website, the suit filed as a handwritten seven-page letter and submitted to the Omaha U.S. District Court states\u00a0that \u201chomosexuality is a sin and that the\u00a0homosexuals know it is a sin to live a life of homosexuality.\u201d After all \u201cwhy else would they have been hiding in the closet(?)\u201d<\/p>\n

Could it be because they\u2019ve been persecuted in every from public shaming (or maybe specious lawsuits) to being burned alive publicly?<\/p>\n

You can read her full petition here<\/a>, but though Ms. Driskell is the official planetary ambassador for both the Father and Son of all creation, she\u2019s not much of a speller.<\/p>\n

Her effort, it seems, is to throw a wrench in the machinations moving us inevitably\u00a0toward equal individual and family rights for same-sex couples. That or she\u2019s a decade behind and isn\u2019t aware that the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws more than ten years ago. Either way, she has gay rights activists on the run.<\/p>\n

Steven Payne, a writer on the Daily Kos<\/a>, notes in his response, \u201cMy Husband and I are Being Sued,\u201d that due to the suit being filed, he and his husband\u00a0are in the process of liquidating their joint asses in preparation. \u201cWe anticipate the restitution ordered to this woman will take us down to our very last penny,\u201d he writes. \u201cIn the meantime, our fear is so great we have ceased and desisted being homosexual.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Well it\u2019s about time, Steven.<\/p>\n

Though the motivation, style and medium of the legal filing have offered fertile ground for no small amount of amusement for many, it points to a continued shift in our culture that has been accelerating in recent months in particular. It seems that the closer we come to equality for same-sex couples, the more threatened certain Christian activists and defenders of \u201ctraditional marriage\u201d become.<\/p>\n

But my argument is that the two aren\u2019t really as related as they think.<\/p>\n

For one, the whole \u201ctraditional marriage\u201d argument\u00a0is a little bit myopic. After all, if we\u2019re talking about Biblical examples of marriage, we have to consider how scripture advises us to maintain our concubines, or why it\u2019s best to marry women off (without their consent) as soon as they hit puberty.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t forget the story of Onan, in which we learn two important traditional marriage norms:<\/p>\n